Q 01/05

Monroe ran two cabinet departments during which war?

A) Quasi-War

B) War of 1812

C) First Barbary War

D) Seminole War

Answer · why

B) War of 1812

The War of 1812 made Monroe: after the British burned the capital, the president handed him the War Department on top of State, and his record there c...

Q 02/05

Monroe's presidency coincided with which famously named political period?

A) Age of Jackson

B) Reconstruction

C) Era of Good Feelings

D) Progressive Era

Answer · why

C) Era of Good Feelings

Era of Good Feelings was coined by an opposition newspaper in Boston, the Columbian Centinel, after the new president's warm welcome there on his 1817...

Q 03/05

Which political party did Monroe belong to?

A) National Republican

B) Democratic-Republican

C) Anti-Masonic Party

D) Federalist Party

Answer · why

B) Democratic-Republican

Democratic-Republican by label, Monroe hoped to see political parties die out altogether, yet he still refused to appoint a single Federalist to his c...

Q 04/05

Monroe spent three years from 1780 studying which profession under Thomas Jefferson?

A) Medicine

B) Law

C) Architecture

D) Surveying

Answer · why

B) Law

Law held little interest for Monroe in itself: he saw it as the quickest route to wealth and influence, and in Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, h...

Q 05/05

Monrovia, a national capital named after Monroe, is the capital of which country?

A) Sierra Leone

B) Ghana

C) The Gambia

D) Liberia

Answer · why

D) Liberia

Liberia's capital took his name in 1824 because Monroe had steered US government money to the American Colonization Society's settlement there for fre...